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Why a CMS?

Why use the Plone content management system (CMS) for your web site?

The Plone CMS allows you to have an easy to use automated web site that comes alive.

  • Menus are automatically created for you.
  • Your front page shows the latest information dynamically.
  • Content moves from one user to another through the system for collaboration. One can delegate to others and you can still reserve the right to review before final publication.
  • Everything can be managed easily right through the web browser. 
  • One can categorize content and search within documents with a powerful built in search engine.

The Plone CMS

  • significantly eases the process of managing and using a web site or interoffice system
  • is highly customizable to fit unique business requirements
  • is designed to be highly search engine and user friendly
  • is cost effective

Your content may include

  • files- including Word, PDF, and Excel
  • images
  • audio and video
  • scanned documents (searchable contents)
  • calendar events
  • web pages
  • news
  • links
  • and infinite number of custom built content types specific to your business needs or industry.

The Plone CMS includes

  • A built in search engine- provides search of all content on site.
  • A built in template system- offers the ability to have a highly automated site and customizable layout
  • Ease of use for end users and administrators- works for the disabled, all web browsers (including mobile phones).
  • Workflow- Workflow allows you to delegate portions of web publishing to others
  • Access to hundreds of free add-on modules for a more advanced web site.
  • user and group management system- add new customers, partners, employees
  • the ability to manage site through any web browser or with tools on your computer.

What does it cost?

The most incredible part about it is that Plone is free. As open source software, Plone is free for developers like myself to customize and provide to clients without the added cost of boxed software.  Some organizations pay tens of thousands of dollars to over $100,000 for systems like this. It's so powerful and packed with features that large companies and government agencies use it as well. Companies like Google, eBay, the CIA, NASA, Duke University and thousands more use this powerful system to do just about anything they want with both internal and public web sites.

So what's the catch? There really is not one. Sonoma Technology, with years of experience with this web application system may be employed to customize it your business use whatever that may be.

Even if you do not have sophisticated needs, you get a much better web site at a better price. However, if you have advanced needs, you get a web site that you might not normally be able to afford. You save money on the initial deployment of your site and money over time.

Think what you could do with a web publishing system that helps your employees, business partners and customers instead of frustrating them.

Call Sean Kelley with Sonoma Technology at (910)-687-6019 with any questions or to schedule a free demonstration if you are within the local area.  We can work with anyone regardless of geographic location.  Call or email.

 

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